Citizenship and Immigration committee  It takes two to three years to remove a failed refugee claimant, and it takes less than one year to remove a high-priority person.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, unless the person is a high-priority removal.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  All others can take between two to three years, and some can take even more.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Are you talking about those whose applications have been refused?

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Okay. Their removal is stopped for 60 days to give Citizenship and Immigration a chance to assess the application. If you have a case where the 60-day time period has lapsed, there's consultation with CIC to ensure that....

Citizenship and Immigration committee  First of all, people who are not Canadian, so permanent residents and foreign nationals, can be reported and, if found inadmissible, may be removed from Canada. In addition, those who aid and abet those types of activities can be criminally charged under the immigration legislati

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Before anyone is removed, we would consult with the other department. Removal is a long process, so there's--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No, in general to remove someone would take about two to three years, because they have all levels of appeal available to them--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Well, generally speaking we don't remove spouses.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We consult with CIC so that they can make the decision before we remove.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Criminals in general take less than a year to remove--

Citizenship and Immigration committee  A risk you encounter from that is that there is nothing stopping someone from making continuous spousal applications to avoid removal.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Normally a conviction certificate from a police department would be proof that someone is a criminal. Usually that's done through the RCMP, and if you have the same name as someone else, like Stewart for example, we may need to get fingerprints done and to do further checks to de

Citizenship and Immigration committee  We don't have any specific statistics on that, because our systems do not allow for that type of breakdown, but before we were to remove anyone we would consult with CIC first.